Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old quarterback quotes, quarterback sayings, and quarterback proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.Dan Marino
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A lot of quarterbacks have big arms and can make all the throws, but the most important thing is knowledge of the game, controlling the offense and, more than anything, limiting mistakes. Knowing what good plays to get your team into at the line of scrimmage and what bad plays to get out of.Deshaun Watson
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Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.Don Shula
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There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.Drew Brees
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As a quarterback, you try to manage the game. It's not just throwing the ball. You have to manage the running game and getting out of bad situations and there are a lot of things to it. That's what I'm trying to do.Eli Manning
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You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.Fran Tarkenton
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.Hale Irwin
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My prototypical quarterback is a competitive guy that's a winner, somebody that has great athletic instincts, somebody who is very accurate throwing the football, a quick-minded guy who can think fast on his feet and can make decisions quickly, someone who has leadership ability, an understanding of timing and can make really good decisions.Jim Harbaugh
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Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.Joe Montana
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As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.Joe Montana
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I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.John Elway
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Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.John Ortberg
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That's the fun part of it all. You get creative when you're in Little League. You're creative when you're in middle school. You're creative in high school and college. And then when you get to the league, this position, the more mobile quarterbacks, we have a tendency to want to become traditional and nervous and panicky in how we want to call plays and put guys in position to make plays.Kordell Stewart
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A wide receiver like me wouldn't have won. The quarterback - or even the running back - always wins.Patrick Wilson
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The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.Paul Brown
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I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.Robert Griffin III
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My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.Russell Wilson
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Whether you're a quarterback and you just threw a pick, or you're a corner and you just got beat for a touchdown, you've got to have a short-term memory, shake it off and play the next play.Steve Mariucci
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Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.Thomas Boswell
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My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.Tom Brady
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The biggest thing you need to be successful with it is a quarterback who wants to be involved in the decision-making process and not just merely want to execute plays sent in to him.Tony Dungy
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